For 25 years E.G. Vallianatos saw the EPA from the inside, with rising dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from huge corporations were turning the public’s watchdog into a “polluter’s protection agency.”

eonicotinoids are the most widely used class of insecticides in the world. But like DDT, the infamous insecticide of the 1970s, evidence illustrates these neurotoxins are harming birds, bees, and our entire planet.